Beginning last Friday Sahakar Bharati held three day function including the meeting of its National Executive Committee in Patna, with the concluding session being addressed by Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Sunday. The choice of Patna was made keeping in mind the need to strengthen the activities of Sahakar Bharati in the state, said Jyotindra […]

The 8th Cooperative Congress concluded in Kannur this week has come up with India’s first Cooperative Policy for a state and would be placed before Kerala’s Cabinet on February 21, claimed state co-op minister Kadakampally Surendran. The Co-op Policy for Kerala included subjects like a professional audit system for credit co-ops, amalgamation of DCCBs into a […]

M K Nayak, President of Cuttack Co-op which is based in Odisha is a harassed man today as he narrated his tax woes in the seminar organized by NCUI-NAFCUB in Delhi recently. “We received a demand notice from Income Tax of Rs 73 lacs for the year 2014-15”, narrated Nayak. While 80 P 2A (1) […]

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan came down heavily on the Centre for trying to sabotage the co-operative movement through demonetization. The pangs are not yet over, said Vijayan on the occasion of inauguration of the 8th Sahakarana Congress on Saturday in Kanoor. A communist to the core, the chief minister carped at globalization. Since the advent of […]

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind addressed the 56th convocation of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute on Saturday. Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh was also present at the function Speaking on the occasion, the President said that IARI played a critical role in the Green Revolution that changed the course […]

Preparations are afoot for the eighth edition of Cooperative Congress in Mundayad indoor stadium in Kunnur. The Congress is slated to be inaugurated tomorrow on February 10 by the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, said Kerala Cooperative Minister Kadakampally Surendran in a media interaction on Thursday. Nearly 3000 selected delegates from the cooperative sector across the states will participate in the […]

In the wake of a spate of scams indulged in by chit fund agencies like Sharda and others, the Union Agriculture Ministry began treating credit co-ops shabbily and with suspicion, without realizing the importance of their role in financial inclusion. Through a Circular the govt asked credit co-ops to paste a notice on their premises […]

Sahakar Bharati Patron Satish Marathe has indicated that Sahakar Bharati is not interested in the cooperative election race in Uttar Pradesh. It bears recall that the RSS leaning co-op body earlier toyed with the idea of fighting elections to challenge the hegemony of Samajwadi Party in the State with one of its former officials Vijay […]

The big day is here. Uttar Pradesh cooperatives which are alleged to be controlled by Samajwadi Party so far is going to polls today. The main fight is between BJP and the SP- the former being in the election mode for quite a long time. For BJP it is fight to finish, said a source. […]

During his recent tour of Raigad district, Maharashtra Cooperative Minister Subhash Deshmukh visited the office of Kamal Nagari Sahakari Patsanstha. Founder Chairman of Society Girish Tulpule, Chairman Satish Chandra Patil used the occasion to apprise the minister of problems affecting the credit cooperative. The Chairman of the society urged the minister to increase the deposit […]

News have poured in from across the country about cooperative leaders celebrating the Republic Day with great enthusiasm. It was the 69th Republic Day of a country which has the highest numbers of young people and is restless to join the club of developed nations. If IFFCO Managing Director Dr U S Awasthi hoisted National Flag at IFFCO Kandla […]

The Chocolate co-operative body CAMPCO has bagged a prestigious award bestowed on it by the Federation of Indian Export Organizations-Southern Region set up by the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. The award ceremony was held at Hotel Le Royal Meridien, Guindy in Chennai last week. The Campco bagged the FIEO Regional Export Award for […]

Karnataka Chief Minister has taken note of a fraud allegedly perpetrated by the former Chairman Gurunath Janthikar of Karnataka State Souharda Federal Cooperative- a federation of thousands of co-operatives active in the Souharda belt of the state. In a stunning disclosure, one Mr Sangamesh Nowbade a resident of Bidar in Karnataka have accused former Chairman […]

Inaugurating a new building of chocolate cooperative CAMPCO in Puttur in Karnataka, Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu talked about agricultural export policy likely to be implemented soon to help double the income of farmers on Sunday. What the Agricultural Ministry has failed to do is now being taken up by the Commerce ministry. Prabhu who himself […]

In the run up to the high-voltage Cooperative Congress being planned by Kerala govt in February, allegations of collecting donation by force have been reported from various quarters. Reacting angrily to the development Kerala Congress leader K.C.Josef has alleged that lakhs of rupees are being compulsorily collected as donation from cooperative societies for the conference. […]